Week 15 of JHS Science 2023-24| STEM Fair Class Presentations
This week's slideshow highlights: Students in 6th, 7th, & 8th grade classes presenting their STEM Fair Projects to their classmates. Each student chose to work alone or with a partner, where they practiced each of the 8 NGSS Science & Engineering Practices starting with "Asking Questions or Defining a Problem", to then "designing and carrying out an experiment or engineering design process", all the way to eventually "obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information". As scientists and engineers, going through the process of presenting to their classmates simulates the "peer review" process that all scientists experience in the real world. Presentations this week encompassed inquiry projects that explored all the disciplines of science and engineering: biology; earth science; environmental science; chemistry; and physics. I am so proud of our students as they showed enthusiasm for their chosen inquiry topics and displayed a high level of scientific inquiry, which they also combined with college-level research skills along the way. In a sense, students who presented were the teachers of our class for that 10-15 minute period of our class time. We still have a few more presentations this coming week! Thank you for checking in with us this week:)